Suddenly stricken by the weakness of pride, the man asks the machine: «Can you be me?» My body, my voice, my conscience: can you simulate them? Am I, too, no more than an arrangement of machinery? Or might I be God the creator of a new humanity, but whose performance is so weak that future humanoids will replace me?
Archipel 2018 ponders the question of the birth of a transhumanity. Musicians have always been sorcerers' apprentices. Their art form involves mathematics
and incited them to use computing as soon as it became accessible in the 1950s.
Before all other artists, they seized upon this new tool to create their music, stimulate their imagination, expand their thought and sometimes abandon their creative power to the machine.
In a historical and forward-looking approach, we travel through sixty years of artistic research involving artificial intelligence. Ecce Homo, Ecce Robo (sic); behold man and his double, behold the robot, our probable future, new Lord of modernity.
Marc Texier - director of Archipel
